[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR91.15]

[Page 314-315]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 91--INSPECTION AND HANDLING OF LIVESTOCK FOR EXPORTATION--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart C--Ports of Embarkation, Facilities, Health Certification
 
Sec. 91.15  Inspection of animals for export.

    (a) All animals offered for exportation to any foreign country, 
except by land to Mexico or Canada, shall be

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inspected within 24 hours of embarkation by an APHIS veterinarian at an 
export inspection facility at a port designated in Sec. 91.14(a), or at 
a port or inspection facility designated by the Administrator in a 
special case under Sec. 91.14(b).
    (b) Such animals shall be held for a period of not less than 5 hours 
at the port of embarkation or export inspection facility during which 
time the animals shall be given a careful visual health inspection. 
Sorting, grouping, identification, or other handling of the animals by 
the exporter may be before or after this period of time. If individual 
clinical inspection of an animal is deemed necessary by an APHIS 
veterinarian for the purpose of determining its health status, such 
inspection may be made during this period of time or thereafter.
    (c) Feed and water. All animals shall be allowed a period of at 
least 5 hours for rest at the export inspection facility, with adequate 
feed and water available, before movement to an ocean vessel or aircraft 
for loading for export. (This may be the same period required by 
paragraph (b) for health inspection.) However, feed and water will not 
be required if the animals were transported to the export inspection 
facility in a carrier in which adequate feed and water were provided and 
if sufficient evidence is presented to an APHIS veterinarian that the 
animals, if under 30 days of age, will arrive in the country of 
destination within 24 hours after they were last fed and watered, in the 
United States, or in the case of other animals within 36 hours after 
they were last fed and watered in the United States

[42 FR 28990, June 7, 1977, as amended at 44 FR 28299, May 15, 1979. 
Redesignated at 45 FR 86413, Dec. 31, 1980, and amended at 57 FR 23048, 
June 1, 1992; 60 FR 4536, Jan. 24, 1995; 60 FR 9611, Feb. 21, 1995]